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Gabby's parents have been taking care of her as if she is a newborn child specially that her condition has also caused her blindness and inability to speak. According to Medical researcher Richard F Walker who has been studying Gabby’s case for two years, Gabby may have a genetic impairment that hinders the human body’s "developmental inertia." He said that "In some people, something happens to them and the development process is retarded. The rate of change in the body slows and is negligible."
Gabby’s case, together with a 29-year-old American with the body of a 10-year-old, and a 31-year-old Brazilian woman with a body like a toddler, will be featured on the TLC documentary "40-Year-Old Child, a New Case" to be aired on the 19th of August.
If the mystery of this case will be unveiled, biological immortality might be unlocked as with the words of Dr. Walker: "If we could identify the gene and then at young adulthood we could silence the expression of developmental inertia, find an off-switch, when you do that, there is perfect homeostasis and you are biologically immortal."
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